Da Patch - Martin Xciter User Manual

6. Use SCR2 or ARROW to scroll through the physical channels (1-512).
7. Press the SM bounce button below the physical channel you wish to attach to the control channel.
8. Press the SM bounce button again to invert the channel. Note that the brackets around the channel value
tell you whether it is inverted or not.
9. To remove a physical channel, hold [CLEAR] and press the SM bounce button below the physical channel.
10. Press the bottom right softkey to switch between the following settings for the physical channel(s):
a. High limits
b. Low limits
c. Default values
11. Use the faders to adjust these settings. In some cases you may find faders to difficult to adjust values. You
can hold down the bounce button under the fader while you turn SCR2 to adjust the value.
12. Press [STORE] to save your settings. Xciter returns to the previous menu.
13. Repeat these previous steps until you have configured all control channels you need under the selected
dimmer number and until you have patched all dimmer numbers you need.
14. Press [ESC] to exit the dimmer patch. Xciter will ask whether you want to save the new dimmer setup.
Press [ENT] to confirm, [ESC] to decline.
If you have not assigned any physical channels to the dimmer unit yet, {Next used} will bring up the first
available channel on the DMX chain. In case you have already assigned physical channels, you can easily
look them up with the {Next used} function.
By default you will see occupied channels as unit numbers (Example: Fx-01 for fixture 1). Press
{Units}/{Labels}to toggle unit display and label display. Looking at the unit labels in respect to their physical
channel is very useful (Example: for debugging fixture profiles or patch).
Generic lights like PAR-cans work great with the audio features of the effect generator. If you want to
create delays in the audio effects, you need to place each dimmer or bar under a different dimmer button,
but under the same dimmer label to make control easier.

8.4 DA patch

DA stands for Direct Access. You have 4 DA buttons on the console. The DA patch lets you program two
static scenes behind each DA button. Xciter will not allow you to use channels that are occupied by other
devices. The main purpose of the DA button is to momentarily control devices like smoke machines and
strobes.
DA scenes cannot be used in the programmer. If you wish to use a strobe in the show, you need to patch it
as a fixture or dimmer device but you can no longer use it under a DA button because of the restriction
mentioned above. But you can still make it direct access by putting it in a playback.
Beware that if you adjust the DMX address of your DA devices, you also need to adapt the DA scenes that
use those devices.
1. Press {DA Patch} in the patch menu. Xciter shows the DA patch menu.
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